Fall is coming!! WOO!! in the last week we've had our first rain, and surprisingly things are starting to turn green already! I love it. But it also sends alot of cogs turning - I need to set up a center pen in the pasture, last year my youngest donkey, Martha, got a little heavier than I'd like her to be - off of spring grasses.

So I'm planning on setting up a paddock paradise type 'thingy'. Basically the idea is to make runs/perimeters/'tracks', that encourage your equine to move about, while keeping them off the super lush grass.

then girls will eventually have access to those grasses, but only for a certain amount of time and a certain time of the day ( when the sugar content is the lowest). Unlike some info I've read, donkeys over eat VERY easily. they almost thrive on air!! It doesn't take much!

The paddock paradise set up will also help both of my girls tone up! Martha needs to loose some weight, and Daisy is still working off her fat pads but now is at a good weight, just gotta work those things off. And they may never come off, but she looks 100% better than when I got her. Her fat pads were so big they looked like speed bumps!

You can check out her blog in 2009 and look at her pics. ( link is on the links page)

I also would like ot set up a training pen on the north side of the property, this would also include a PP (paddock paradise) 'track' around it. I've also invented a way to move temp fence post easily, so they can be moved often. Most likely the training pen would have more permanent post and the outter perimeter of the track will be my temp fence posts.

Here is Daisy at a recent donkey fesitval all set up in her horseguard temp fence I made - note the bases, I made these because the ground at this place is nearly impossible to sink a post in!!

That white stuff on her face is paint, I painted her like a 'skeledonk' for the costume class LOL!!

Chores still go on when it's raining, I took my puppy, ok she's a year old LOL, Zoey out with me to scoop poop. Which she loved! NOM NOM donkey poop! She got to meet Jak jak - Martha's temp replacement lol, she was very good around him and got rewarded for being nice and not her typical crazy self.

She was still 'attached' to me for indoor chores too, I think this was the first time she had to have her paws wiped off before coming in the house, she did ok for that. Now she's laying next to my chair as i type this.

Lots of other chores to be done, the yard needs a major overhaul. In the summer time it just gets too hot for me, now that it's cooler I feel re energized and can get some things done, although the rain makes me want to sit and sew some projects.

Oh projects. LOL. I have two in the works, both are estimates right now, now official projects yet.First is a rain coat for a very fluffy cute dog ( big dog) and the second is a braided donkey britchen like i made Daisy.